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US justice department suspended fraud charges against chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei hopes that the US justice department’s decision to abandon its efforts to extradite Meng Wanzhou may mark the starting point in a new era in relations between the company, China and the US government. Meng, the …

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Ofcom threatens severe financial penalties for sites such as OnlyFans and video apps including TikTok UK websites and apps that host pornography and adult material – such as OnlyFans and PocketStars – must put in place strict age-verification processes or face severe financial penalties, the communications watchdog has said. Video-sharing platforms (VSPs) established in the …

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Engineers’ command accidentally disconnected company’s network from rest of world, blogpost says Facebook has said an error during routine maintenance of its network of data centers caused a cascade of problems that took down its platforms for more than six hours on Monday. In a blogpost published on Tuesday, Santosh Janardhan, vice-president of engineering, said …

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Frances Haugen says in US Congress testimony that Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits before people’ Facebook puts “astronomical profits before people”, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Congress. Frances Haugen said Facebook knew it steered young users towards damaging content and that its Instagram app was “like …

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Shutdown heavily impacts ability to communicate and do business for many of platform’s 2.8 billion users From bereft Brazilians to relaxed Russians and internet-savvy Indians, Facebook’s outage highlighted the dependence much of the world has developed on its social media products, and put the spotlight on its global power. The fallout of Facebook’s unprecedented almost …

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Frances Haugen, the former employee who accused Facebook of putting profit over safety, has testified before the US Senate. The whistleblower condemned the extreme secrecy and lack of transparency around Facebook and how its algorithms work. ‘I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy,’ she said. ‘The company’s leadership knows how …

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Frances Haugen’s testimony spotlighted the negative effects of social media’s impact on children and called for regulation of the company The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, testified before the US Congress on Tuesday, painting a dire picture of the tech giant’s policies. Haugen’s appearance in front of the US Senate is just the latest high-profile hearing …

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Three people tell how they were affected by temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram The global outage just adds to Facebook’s many recent woes Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday. …

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UK driver alleges his account was illegally deactivated when Uber software decided he was not who he said he was An Uber driver who lost his job when automated face-scanning software failed to recognise him is accusing the firm of indirect race discrimination in a legal test case. The black driver, who worked on the …

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California federal court orders company to pay Owen Diaz who alleges he faced ‘daily racial epithets’ including the ‘N-word’ Tesla has been ordered by a federal court in California to pay almost $137m in damages to a Black former employee who said he endured racial abuse while working at a factory in Fremont. Owen Diaz, …

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